Nixon and Kennedy once shared a sleeper car on a train ride, when they were either campaigning for their House seats in '48 or barnstorming as freshmen congressmen, and I believe Kennedy even contributed to one of Nixon's campaigns. There was a lot of mutual admiration between them.

Peaceboy:Nixon and Kennedy once shared a sleeper car on a train ride, when they were either campaigning for their House seats in '48 or barnstorming as freshmen congressmen, and I believe Kennedy even contributed to one of Nixon's campaigns. There was a lot of mutual admiration between them.

They were friends while they were in the Senate. They were friends until 1960, when JFK used every trick in the book (and some that weren't) to get elected in an election where Nixon thought he was a shoe-in.

No, Subby, no. No, no, no. In 1959 they were not campaigning against each other. In 1959, Senator Kennedy at age 42 was an unlikely longshot. And they didn't have the idiocy where primaries and debates start in the year previous to the election year. Not to deny that it all changed in 1960, but TFA says 1959.

Terrible writing in TFA by the way. At least three times in TFA, author has to talk about not wanting to sit next to smelly males, how he doesn't want to see male toes of sandal wearers, and other horrors of having to fly with male humans. But that's OK, CNN writer. Dehumanize me as much as you like, as long as we get that you don't want anyone to think that you might like men.

Dwight_Yeast:Peaceboy: Nixon and Kennedy once shared a sleeper car on a train ride, when they were either campaigning for their House seats in '48 or barnstorming as freshmen congressmen, and I believe Kennedy even contributed to one of Nixon's campaigns. There was a lot of mutual admiration between them.

They were friends while they were in the Senate. They were friends until 1960, when JFK used every trick in the book (and some that weren't) to get elected in an election where Nixon thought he was a shoe-in.

Shoo-in shoo-in shoo-in. And which years exacty were Nixon and Kennedy in the Senate together?

Kevin72:Terrible writing in TFA by the way. At least three times in TFA, author has to talk about not wanting to sit next to smelly males, how he doesn't want to see male toes of sandal wearers, and other horrors of having to fly with male humans. But that's OK, CNN writer. Dehumanize me as much as you like, as long as we get that you don't want anyone to think that you might like men.

Bob Greene sucks. He's one of those columnists for the Trib who kept waxing nostalgic for an era that only existed in the imagination of white Republican Baby Boomer men.And then he got fired for banging a 17-year-old.

NotoriousW.O.P:Kevin72: Terrible writing in TFA by the way. At least three times in TFA, author has to talk about not wanting to sit next to smelly males, how he doesn't want to see male toes of sandal wearers, and other horrors of having to fly with male humans. But that's OK, CNN writer. Dehumanize me as much as you like, as long as we get that you don't want anyone to think that you might like men.

Bob Greene sucks. He's one of those columnists for the Trib who kept waxing nostalgic for an era that only existed in the imagination of white Republican Baby Boomer men.And then he got fired for banging a 17-year-old.

Kevin72:NotoriousW.O.P: Kevin72: Terrible writing in TFA by the way. At least three times in TFA, author has to talk about not wanting to sit next to smelly males, how he doesn't want to see male toes of sandal wearers, and other horrors of having to fly with male humans. But that's OK, CNN writer. Dehumanize me as much as you like, as long as we get that you don't want anyone to think that you might like men.

Bob Greene sucks. He's one of those columnists for the Trib who kept waxing nostalgic for an era that only existed in the imagination of white Republican Baby Boomer men.And then he got fired for banging a 17-year-old.

Wow! Talk about fitting a profile.

Not quite. It was a 17-year-old girl. I should have been more specific.

I dunno if you can call a Chicago Jewish baby boomer columnist who coined the term "Yuppie" & hung out with Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail" an "old white Republican" but the Fark Politics Tab holds bad juju for History Majors(Rob't Byrd went into politics on orders of the Grand Cyclops-just like in "Clash Of The Titans")...I also doubt you could say anybody who likes gas below $4.00 a gallon is "nostalgiac", but you're on a rollLink